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Asked: 2026-06-09T13:16:52+00:00

I know there are other posts similar to this, but everyone recommends just doing

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I know there are other posts similar to this, but everyone recommends just doing it directly in PHPMyAdmin into MySQL (Which works perfectly, but I need to import through an HTML form to PHP to MySQL.

I would like to have an HTML form that collects a file. Then passes that file to a PHP script and I would like to know if it is possible to simply call a PHP function that converts a comma delimeted .csv file into MySQL and adds it to the database.

Or is the only way to parse the file line by line and add each record?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I haven’t fully tested this, but I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t work.

    <?php

if ( isset( $_FILES['userfile'] ) )
{
  $csv_file = $_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'];

  if ( ! is_file( $csv_file ) )
    exit('File not found.');

  $sql = '';

  if (($handle = fopen( $csv_file, "r")) !== FALSE)
  {
      while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ",")) !== FALSE)
      {
          $sql .= "INSERT INTO `table` SET
            `column0` = '$data[0]',
            `column1` = '$data[1]',
            `column2` = '$data[2]';
          ";
      }
      fclose($handle);
  }

  // Insert into database

  //exit( $sql );
  exit( "Complete!" );
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <title>CSV to MySQL Via PHP</title>
</head>
<body>
  <form enctype="multipart/form-data" method="POST">
    <input name="userfile" type="file">
    <input type="submit" value="Upload">
  </form>
</body>
</html>

    Of course you would need to validate the data first.

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